MANILA, Philippines — Former Senate President Francis Escudero confronted Public Works and Highways Secretary Vince Dizon about the flood control scandal on Tuesday evening. During the Senate’s ...
MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Jinggoy Estrada and former officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) could ...
MANILA, Philippines — The liaison officer of a construction company linked to millions of pesos worth of government infrastructure projects that were either nonexistent or substandard told the ...
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Ramping up infra spending

The government’s persistent underspending on critical infrastructure projects has unfortunately extended to the first quarter of this year, with total capital outlay slashed by almost half from the ...
MANILA, Philippines — Government infrastructure spending has yet to pick up in the first quarter of the year from its 2025 downward spiral driven by the flood control corruption scandal, tempering the ...
The Philippines has lost an estimated 42.3–118.5 billion Philippine pesos (US$713 million–2 billion) a year from flood control corruption since 2023. The scale of illegal wealth accrued by contractors ...
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos said on Monday (September 15, 2025) he did not blame people for taking part in street protests “one bit” as anger mounts over a corruption scandal involving phony ...